Mike Vanderboegh

Michael Brian Vanderboegh (born 1953; died August 10, 2016 in Pinson) was an anti-government militia group founder and website publisher who advocated violent resistance to United State law.

Vanderbough became active in the "Patriot" movement immediately following the FBI's 1993 raid of a compound in Waco, Texas. As a leader in the Alabama Militia and the Sons of Liberty, Vanderbough staked out a "moderate" position, distinguishing himself from similar groups with overtly racist or neo-Nazi ideologies.

In the mid-2000s, Vanderbough led an "Alabama Minuteman Support Team" which traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border to join other civilians in attempting to capture undocumented migrants.

In 2008 Vanderbough co-founded a group called the Three Percenters (or III Percenters), focused on resistance against gun control legislation and its enforcement. He has participated in many online forums and published his own "Sipsey Street Irregulars" weblog, which he has used to implore vandalism against Democratic Party offices and officials' homes to show opposition to weakened immigration policies and passage of the Affordable Care Act.

He also wrote an unpublished novel and self-described "field manual" advocating violence against government agents. That book has been implicated as in inspiration for Frederick Thomas' 2011 plot to bomb federal buildings and assassinate government officials in four Georgia cities.